Delhi Capitals 131 for 4 (Jonassen 61*, Shafali 44, Gautam 2-26) beat Gujarat Giants 127 for 9 (Fulmali 40*, Dottin 26, Kapp 2-17, Pandey 2-18, Sutherland 2-20) by six wickets
Kapp, Pandey leave Giants powerless
As she often does, Kapp got the ball to shape away from right-hand batters consistently. Harleen Deol, opening the innings, nicked one such delivery but the edge fell just short of Lanning at first slip.
Deol could not enjoy her luck for long, as Kapp induced another outside edge in her next over. This time the ball carried comfortably into the gloves of Sarah Bryce. Phoebe Litchfield, who had replaced Laura Wolvaardt in the XI, lasted just three balls; Kapp trapped her lbw for a duck.
Kapp’s double-wicket maiden left GG on 16 for 2 after four overs. In the next over, Pandey made it far worse with back wickets on back-to-back deliveries. Beth Mooney had started the over by crunching Pandey through the covers for four. Pandey switched to around the wicket, and found immediate success as Mooney’s pick-up shot landed into Niki Prasad’s hands at long leg.
For the hat-trick ball, Pandey went short again. She beat Deandra Dottin on the pull and hit her on the helmet. After a concussion check, Dottin flat-batted the next ball down the ground for four. In the next over, she repeated the shot against Kapp for the same result. Those boundaries lent the score some respectability as GG finished the powerplay on 31 for 4.
Bharti Fulmali scored an unbeaten 40 off just 29 balls•BCCI
Fulmali leads the fightback
In the ninth over, Titas Sadhu castled Ashleigh Gardner, GG’s captain and their in-form batter, for 3 off 9 balls. Two overs later, Annabel Sutherland put an end to Dottin’s counterattack. But Fulmali, playing her first game of the season, led the fightback. In the 15th over, she pulled Minnu Mani over deep square leg for the first six of the innings. Along with Tanuja Kanwar, she added 51 in 40 balls for the seventh wicket and steered the side past 120.
Lanning’s diminishing returns
Shafali Verma struck a few boundaries in the powerplay•BCCI
Jonassen, Shafali kill the game
DC’s move to send Jonassen at No. 3 paid off handsomely, especially with one square boundary being significantly shorter than the other – 51 metres vs 63 metres. When the shorter boundary was on Jonassen’s leg side, she scored 23 runs off eight balls in that region, including both her sixes. She was aggressive against every bowler. Her lowest strike rate was against Gautam, off whom she scored 15 off nine at 166.66.
Shafali preferred the leg side irrespective of which side the shorter boundary was on. Of her 44 runs off 27 balls, 32 came on the leg side. When Gardner trapped her lbw in the ninth over, DC had reached 88.
Jonassen brought up her maiden WPL fifty off 26 balls. Even though DC lost Jemimah Rodrigues and Sutherland cheaply, their win was never in doubt.
Hemant Brar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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